pbzip2

A parallel implementation of the bzip2 file compressor. See also: bzip2, tar. More information: <https://manned.org/pbzip2>.

Install

All systems
curl cmd.cat/pbzip2.sh
Debian Debian
apt-get install pbzip2
Ubuntu
apt-get install pbzip2
Arch Arch Linux
pacman -S pbzip2
image/svg+xml Kali Linux
apt-get install pbzip2
Fedora
dnf install pbzip2
Windows (WSL2)
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install pbzip2
OS X
brew install pbzip2
Raspbian
apt-get install pbzip2

A parallel implementation of the bzip2 file compressor. See also: bzip2, tar. More information: <https://manned.org/pbzip2>.

  • Compress a file:
    pbzip2 path/to/file
  • Compress a file using the specified number of processors:
    pbzip2 -p4 path/to/file
  • [d]ecompress a file:
    pbzip2 --decompress path/to/compressed_file.bz2
  • Display help:
    pbzip2 -h

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